Improvement in broom-handles



* NITED STATES EPHRAIM M. TURNER AND JOHN W. TURNER, OF FORT WORTH,TEXAS.

BROOM-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,727, dated January20, 1874 application filed July 26, 1873.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EPERAIM M. TURNER and JOHN W. TURNER, of FortWorth, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented a newand valuable Improvement in Brooms; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawingsmaking a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a sectional view of ourbroom. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of thesame.

This invention has relation to brooms; and consists in the constructionand novel arrangement of the hinge -joint and spring-catch of thehandle, whereby the transportation of the brooms is facilitated and thebrush protected,

' as hereinafter more fully set vforth.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the brush or strawend of the broom, and B designates the handle. This is jointed at o, atongue or projection, a., being formed on one section, and a inortise ordepression, b, in the other for its reception, with the object ot'making the joint more secure. The section C of the handle, which isattached to the brush, is connected With the other sect-ion, D,

` by a hinge, d, the branches or leaves of which are screwed orotherwise secured to one side of the handle.. On the opposite side ofthe handle a catch is provided, by means of which, when the joint isclosed, the sections C and D 1 are securely connected in their relativeposi. tion, forming a firm handle. For this purpose a catch, e, issecured to one section, so that its flan ged or hooked end will beturned inward, and to the opposite section is fastened a spring=hook, z,with its end turned outward to engage with the catch e when the two arebrought together in closing the joint. The spring-hook may be providedwith a pressure= button, o, for convenience.`

This improvement is designed to be applied to brooms of ordinaryconstruction. Beretofore brooms adapted for foldin'g have` beenconstructed with expensive ferrules, or springs and catche's orn a likecostlyeharacter. not claim, broadly, a folding broom.

That we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The broom described, having a sectional handle, B C, and mortise jointc, and connected on one side of said joint by the hinge EPHRAIM M.TRNER. JNO. W. TURNER.

Witnesses WM. RUSSELL, OMAR SMITH.

We do plates d, and on the opposite side by the eatch-

